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Associated Press - December 3, 2009 1:54 PM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Mississippi man has been charged with fraudulently receiving $138,400 in federal loan money after Hurricane Katrina.
NEW BEDFORD — Upside-down cars lined both sides of the street as Jennie and Reave LaBorde approached their home in Waveland, Miss., a few days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast.
GREAT NECK, N.Y.----Parker Waichman Alonso LLP, together with the Becnel Law Firm, L.L.C, Salas, L.C. and Lambert and Nelson, P.L.C., is investigating claims on behalf of Hurricane Katrina victims who sustained property damage because of the U.S.
Associated Press - December 3, 2009 5:44 AM ET BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (AP) - New York City firefighters are making their annual trek to the Gulf Coast to deliver toys to needy children.
Last month’s decision in a MRGO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet) lawsuit that found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers liable for much of the Hurricane Katrina flooding that occurred in Louisiana could ultimately mean that the federal government will have to foot some of the bill for the destruction of property that accompanied the [...]
NEW ORLEANS -- A 38-year-old woman from Atlanta has pleaded guilty to three counts of mail fraud involving applications for disaster assistance after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Dallas and New Orleans-based hurricane restoration company and several executives for lying about non-existent business deals in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and fraudulently inflating the company's stock price before the company's CEO sold millions of dollars in company shares.
BEN EVANS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the House Oversight committee today challenged Louisiana officials about what the state is doing to financially help itself and asked whether the state is becoming a "permanent ward of the federal government" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
A Dallas and New Orleans-based hurricane restoration company that has been subject to numerous lawsuits since Hurricane Katrina, and several of the company’s executives, have been charged by ...
The SEC has charged a hurricane restoration company and several of its executives with lying about nonexistent business deals in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and fraudulently inflating the company s stock price before the CEO sold millions of dollars in company shares.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., began a hearing Wednesday on case-management miscues after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, noting a litany of the problems experienced by the storms' victims. Landrieu said many agencies, private and public, were more concerned about process than...
The Atlantic hurricane season ended this Monday with barely a whimper: Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States. Since June, when the season began, just nine named storms developed. ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- The Atlantic hurricane season ended Monday with barely a whimper' Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States. Since June, when the season began, just nine named storms developed. Only three of them became hurricanes, and those stayed out at sea or weakened before passing over land. Two tropical storms made landfall in the U.S., causing little more than rain and ...
The federal appeals court in New Orleans on Nov. 25 dismissed class-action lawsuits for Hurricane Katrina-related damages against 32 major dredging contractors.
Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service, News Director Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, 800-323-8039 ext. 260, cobnews@brethren.org BRETHREN GRANTS GIVE $105,000 FOR HURRICANE RECOVERY IN HAITI, LOUISIANA (Dec. 3, 2009) Elgin, IL -- Grants from the Church of the Brethren's Emergency Disaster Fund have given $105,000 for rebuilding and recovery following hurricane damage ...
JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi's largest insurer is getting nearly a 20 percent wind insurance rate increase for Gulf Coast policyholders, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said Monday.
